The protests sending Iran offline

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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This week: Iran suffers internet blackouts and mobile phone outages as protestors mount angry protests against the country's morality police. Will it help stifle dissent? Wikipedia on their competition to find the sound of all human knowledge. And how one man is still going strong in the floppy disk business.

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0:00.0	On Radio 4, the more you listen, the more you see.
0:04.7	Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
0:05.6	And I'm Robin Ince, and this is The Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:08.3	In this series, we're going to have a planet off.
0:10.8	I feel like Jupiter wins.
0:12.8	And after all of that, we're just going to chill out a bit.
0:15.9	We're talking about your bog standard.
0:17.8	Ice, not the fancy one.
0:20.1	Science with funny bits.
0:21.9	The new series of The Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:24.1	Listen on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.
0:31.7	Welcome to TechTet with me, Zoe Kleinman.
0:34.2	There have been angry protests in Iran following the death in police custody of 22-year-old
0:39.2	Marse Ramini. The authorities have started restricting the internet in an attempt to quell the
0:44.3	unrest, but it hasn't stopped residents from taking to the streets. We're also looking at
0:49.7	Wikimedia's search for the sound of all human knowledge. No rude noises, please.
0:55.1	I heard that.
0:56.2	And we chat to the last man standing in the floppy disc business.
1:02.6	But first this week.
1:04.1	Thank you. Those are videos.
1:22.1	Those are videos of demonstrators in Iran, including the capital Tehran,
1:27.1	who'd been taking to the streets
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